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Health
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Basic Needs for Miskito Indigenous People in BOSAWAS, Nicaragua
• Water
Wells in Nicaragua
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Children’s
Rights Programming in Nicaragua
Health
and Basic Needs for Miskito Indigenous People in BOSAWAS, Nicaragua
Known
as the “Lungs of Central America”, the BOSAWAS biosphere
reserve is the largest tract of tropical rainforest north of the
Amazon basin.
Here, Change for Children works in conjunction with the local
Miskito indigenous association to provide accessible and sustainable
health care, potable water, sanitation initiatives (latrines and
community education), nutritional improvement for community members
(through community garden and community kitchen initiatives),
and health promotion (through natural medicine cultivation and
use).
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Water Wells in Nicaragua
Partner: Centro Humboldt
www.humboldt.org.ni
Since 2004, working with Centro Humboldt, in Nicaragua, and with
the support of CIDA and our generous donors, Change for Children
has provided potable water systems for 73 communities (over 25,000
people) in northern Nicaragua. But this project has accomplished
far more than the awesome task of providing clean water to 25,000
people, it is a project with a holistic vision of environmental
protection and preservation as well as a project that promotes
access to water as a human right.
This project provided the resources for Centro Humboldt to participate
in the drafting and consultation process for Nicaragua's new legislation
regarding water, which leaves control of the precious resource
in the hands of local people and empowers community water committees
to control the resource locally.
Furthermore, the project also involves measures to maintain rights
and access to water under local control through a training process
for municipalities without sufficient capacity to manage water
resources.
Nicaragua
Water Project 2009
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Children’s
Rights Programming in Nicaragua
Partner: FUNARTE (Foundation ART!)
In Nicaragua, Change for Children works with FUNARTE (Foundation
ART!) www.funarte.org.ni,
to provide artistic and cultural programs to children living in
poverty. Through creative, energetic activities, FUNARTE ensures
that Nicaragua’s youth are aware of their human rights and
involved in building a society that respects them.
Through muralism, leadership training, and arts -based rights
education FUNARTE’s programs empower youth to engage their
communities in recognizing and celebrating the value of youth
in Nicaragua’s future.
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